despair

[dotty.]

had a text earlier at work from my daughter, her friend's 11 month old daughter died this morning, after repeated visits to their GP and being sent away several times with anti-biotics for an infection, on tuesday the hospital diagnosed leukemia and lily-may has died just 4 days later. Lily was born the day after my grandaughter at the same hospital. It's so very sad but how absolutely mind numbing that a GP could not send the poor mite to hospital months ago. There may have been something that could have been done, but to not take the mum seriously and just fob her off is unforgiveable, and that is my family's GP too.

[netibiza]

Nothing to add but to say how tragic and how sorry I am for your daughter's friend, to die at any age but 11 months is dreadful.

[Ann]

How very very sad, I have a great niece about the same age, and this would be heart-breaking for me. God bless that poor family x

[sherrardk]

How terribly sad, words fail me, x

[momcj]

That is so sad, tragic. When my daughter was 2 months old she had cough but seemed to not be able to catch her breath, i took her childrens hospital and a locum doctor tried to fob me off, made out i was an overprotective mom, i wasnt very confident then but insisted it didnt seem right. Anyway long story cut short, it turned out to be whooping cough (she had no tell tale cough), admitted to hosp for fortnight and she nearly died. I was very lucky she ended up fine. its so hard cos we trust these doctors, what else r we supposed to do?

[craft1948]

Dotty that is terrible. It's been said in other cases that GP's don't listen enough to the mothers; the mothers do know when something is wrong.

[dotty.]

I remember this GP being an arse about my youngest son when he had back ache when he was 14, told him he had to stop playing football or else he might drop dead on the pitch. one extreme to another.

[ummmm]

How awful :-(

[Sqad]

Every doctor...EVERY doctor has made a life threatening or fatal diagnosis in his working lifetime....EVERY doctor.

Thank goodness this was a rare occurrence and earlier diagnosis would have been unlikely to alter the outcome.

In medicine one is always exposed to the "outside chance" diagnosis, but luckily they are out numbered by the correct and early diagnosis.

[Sqad]

Sorry..."misdiagnosis"

[bednobs]

have to agree with sqad. The amount of children with leukaemia a gp will see in their lifetime is incredibly small perhaps even none, whereas the amount of times children will have a recurring infection that is actually helped by antibiotics is large. if the infections were helped by antibiotics and there were no other glaring symptoms it's actually quite understandable how it was missed

[rockyracoon]

How awful for that poor family, heatbreaking.

[pugthedog]

my thought's are with the family

[Smowball]

Oh that is just heart-breaking. x

[jan01]

How absolutely awful for you all Dotty